Re: [Boost-users] Boost::thread scheduling under HPUX

From: Pete (petehug_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-11-21 15:04:45

Thanks for the hint Brian. I can easily create another thread that can
pause/resume the other worker threads, but I have no idea how this
thread could constantly and non-intrusively monitor system load.

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[mailto:boost-users-bounces_at_[hidden]] On Behalf Of Brian Allison
Sent: Saturday, 19 November 2005 2:21 a.m.
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Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Boost::thread scheduling under HPUX

AFAIK Pete, there are no POSIX hooks for doing this by way of having the
kernel control the sleeping status of a program wrt the load factor.

The typical approach for this problem involves having a control thread
whose purpose is to control the work speed of the threads. This usually
involves a programmatic solution - the nice values are only suggestions
to the scheduling routine IIRC.